Purchasing Area Manager China

YOUR ROLE:

We are seeking an experienced and forward-thinking
Purchasing Area Manager
China (all genders)
to lead and elevate our procurement strategy across the China supply chain. You'll play a vital role in ensuring a smooth and reliable material flow, strengthening supplier relationships, and driving cost and quality excellence that fuels our global growth. This is a high-impact role for someone who thrives on ownership, collaboration, and delivering real business results.

• Strategic Procurement:
  Manage and continuously optimize the end-to-end procurement process for materials sourced in China, ensuring a reliable, compliant, and cost-effective supply chain aligned with global objectives.

• Supplier Management
  : Identify, evaluate, qualify, and manage key suppliers; foster long-term partnerships while ensuring performance, quality, and cost targets are met.

• Commercial Leadership:
  Lead all commercial negotiations, pricing discussions, and contract management activities to secure favorable terms and mitigate risks.

• Operational Execution:
  Oversee the complete purchasing cycle — from order placement and call-offs to material expediting — to guarantee on-time delivery to operational sites.

• Compliance & Quality:
  Ensure all vendors and purchasing processes fully adhere to local regulations, ethical standards, and internal company policies.

• Inventory & Planning Collaboration:
  Work closely with the planning team to monitor inventory levels, manage reorder points, and reduce stock on hand (SoH) while maintaining supply continuity and preventing stock-outs.

YOUR PROFILE:

• Education
  : You hold a degree in Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, Engineering, or a related field. A Master's degree or professional certifications (such as CIPS or APICS) are a plus.

• Experience
  : You bring
  4+ years of hands-on procurement or supply chain experience,
  within the Chinese market, ideally in the FMCG industry. You understand how business works locally — and if you've lived and worked in China before, even better

• Skills
  : You're a strategic and hands-on procurement professional with strong negotiation and analytical skills and a solid understanding of end-to-end supply chain principles. You build trust easily across cultures, communicate clearly, and thrive both independently and in a collaborative, fast-moving team environment.

• Language Skills:
  You communicate effortlessly in Mandarin Chinese (native-level, both spoken and written) and have professional fluency in English, enabling you to navigate seamlessly between local suppliers and international teams.

WHAT WE OFFER:

• An appealing discount on all of our Sunday Natural Group products – from essential oils to vitamins & nutrients
• We offer 28 days of paid time off per year plus up to 5 days off between Christmas and New Year
• We believe great things happen when we meet in person, which is why we embrace a hybrid model with one home office day per week – up to two depending on the area you are working in – and up to two weeks per year working from abroad
• The Urban Sports Club membership, Swapfiets bike rental or a subsidy for the Deutschland ticket
• A healthy balance is important to us: we offer a hybrid work model and 'workation'
• Receive various discounts of up to more than 50 percent on attractive brands such as Flaconi, Bosch, Apple or Expedia
• You will be given real ownership and plenty of room for new initiatives, as well as the opportunity to contribute your expertise and implement your great ideas
• Inviting office spaces with access to plenty of organic teas and superfoods from around the world
• We, the Sunday Natural Group, like to celebrate each other Regular tea & office parties, Christmas and summer feasts and various influencer events such as Women's Day

ABOUT US:

Sunday Natural
emerged from a long-standing passion and research in the fields of health, healing, and personal growth. The lack of natural, high-quality products on the market was the original motivation for founding Sunday Natural in 2013. We aim to produce the products we ourselves would love to buy – as natural as possible, absolutely pure, free from any additives, and of the highest quality. In a strategic partnership with CVC, Sunday Natural is now one of Germany's most renowned quality manufacturers, with its own research and development department in Berlin. For the continuous improvement of our products, we collaborate with selected research institutes, scientists, therapists, farmers, and professional associations.

We take our ecological responsibility very seriously:
that's why the majority of our product range is vegan. We also take an innovative approach to packaging: most of our products are packaged in glass, making them almost entirely recyclable.

Our diverse team in Berlin consists of over 290 employees from more than 40 nationalities and continues to grow – but at a sustainable pace. Our goal is to foster a collaborative, supportive, and inclusive work environment with a diverse group of motivated, talented, and visionary team members.

We highly value equality of opportunity and inclusivity, and we would like to particularly encourage women and candidates from under-represented backgrounds to apply, even if you don't match with 100% of the requirements.